Northern Virginia Community College
And
VDOE Educational Interpreter Training Grant
Presents
“Using Non-Manual Markers & Expansion Features in Educational
Interpretations”
By
Kevin Williams M.S.
When:
Where:
Location:
Time:
CEUs:
Contact:
Saturday January 21, 2012
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003
Building CN, room #231
9:00am-4:00pm
.6 CEUs
Paula Debes
Marla Pollack
703-232-3192
703-208-7901
pdebes@nvcc.edu
mspollack@fcps.edu
Registration Fee: VRID members $50.00
Make checks payable to: VRID
non members $75.00
Students $25.00
Send checks/registration form to:
Northern Virginia Community College
C/O Paula Debes
ASL Interpreter Education Department, Room CN 230
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, Va. 22003-3796
REGISTRATION DUE: JANUARY 17, 2012
"VRID is an Approved RID CMP Sponsor for Continuing Education Activities.
This Professional Studies program is offered for 0.6 CEUs at the Little/None
Content Knowledge Level."
“Using Non-Manual Markers & Expansion Features in Educational
Interpretations”
By
Kevin Williams M.S.
January 21, 2012
Workshop/course Description:
This fun and highly interactive workshop will instruct educational interpreters as to
how to integrate non-manual (facial adverbs/adjectives) into their interpretations
*in conjunction with English articulation* frequently engaged in educational
interpretations (lexical specificity, etc). The workshop will also provide training
pertaining to the integration of language expansion (focus) features in educational
interpretations.
Participants will: 1) Analyze sign-language speakers and identify specific adverbs
and adjectives produced on the face, 2) Incorporate these facial grammatical
features within educational interpretations, 3) Learn how language users integrate
discourse expansions for topical clarity/focus, 4) Engage in classroom discourse
analysis (via media) to determine when to integrate focal features, 5) Render
interpretations integrate expansion/focal features
Presenter: Kevin Williams M.S.
Kevin T. Williams holds his M.S. in Teaching Interpreting from Western
Maryland College, Westminster, Maryland. For over 18 years he was employed
by Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, as their Sign
Communication and Curriculum Specialist and is the Director of the
Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) Diagnostic Center.
While at Boys Town, and in collaboration with Dr. Brenda Schick (University of
Colorado-Boulder), Williams developed the Educational Interpreter Performance
Assessment (EIPA), a diagnostic instrument for educational interpreters and
their employing schools/districts. Other projects engaged in by Williams’
during his tenure at Boys Town included serving as the producer for the Sign
With Me parent sign language videotape curriculum and the Read With Me ASL
storytelling series.
Williams left Boys Town in 2005 and created the National Consortium on
Educational Interpreting, an LLC founded to provide educational and
diagnostic services for educational interpreters. He provided diagnostic
evaluation services for the EIPA Dx Center and consulted nationally on issues
related to inclusion and educational interpreting. In addition to EIPA cocreation, Williams also served as a content expert for the newly created
RID/NAD NIC certification test.
In the summer of 2008 Williams joined the faculty of the Rochester Institute of
Technology, specifically the faculty of the National Technical Institute for the
Deaf. Williams instructs in the area of interpretation and linguistics, teaching
both at RIT and also on-line courses for the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
He continues to serve as a diagnostic rater for the EIPA and travels extensively
presenting on issues of educational interpretation, child language, inclusion,
and ASL and English linguistics/structure.
Kevin, and partner Andrew, have 2 sons, 4 dogs, 1 cat, 1 cockatoo, and one
miniature horse. Life is NEVER dull in their home!
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Day of the Workshop:
 Coffee and Refreshments will be provided in morning; lunch is on your own.
 Certificates of attendance will be given at the conclusion
 Each participant will be given 1 ticket for the parking garage (not including
NVCC students)
Registration Form
“Using Non-Manual Markers & Expansion Features in Educational
Interpretations”
By
Kevin Williams M.S.
January 21, 2012 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
COST:
$00.00 Students
$50.00 VRID Members
$75.00 non-VRID Member
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) = .6 CEUs
REGISTRATION DUE: JANUARY 17, 2012
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Contact: Paula Debes: pdebes@nvcc.edu or call 703-323-3192
Marla Pollack: mspollack@fcps.edu or call 703-208-7901
Make checks payable to: VRID
Send checks to: Northern Virginia Community College
C/O Paula Debes
ASL Interpreter Education Department, Room CN 230
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, Va. 22003-3796
NAME: ________________________________________________________
ADDRESS: _____________________________________________________
CITY/STATE/ZIP: _______________________________________________
PHONE #: ___________________ (home) _____________________ (work)
E-MAIL:_______________________________________________________
VRID Member Number: ___________________________________________
Please make Check or Money Order payable to “VRID.”
_____ Member $50.00_____Non-member $75.00___Student $00.00___Grant Participant
"If you require a reasonable accommodation for this event, please contact Marla Pollack or
Paula Debes by January 17, 2012.”